Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
1h 5m
Running Time
September 5, 1943Release Date
Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
1h 5m
Running Time
September 5, 1943Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Judy Canova
Judy Joyner
Dennis Day
Lancelot Hillie / Dennis Day
Ruth Donnelly
Sarah Rogers
Joe Sawyer
Lumpy
Ernest Truex
Dudley Joyner
Douglas Fowley
J. 'The Brain' Lucarno
Joseph Santley
Director
Will Wright
Cyrus Coates
Prescott Chaplin
Writer
Frank Gill Jr.
Writer
Herbert Corthell
Sheriff Lem Bates
George Carleton Brown
Writer
Ellen Lowe
Mrs. Simms
Bud Thackery
Cinematographer
Forrest Taylor
Samuel
Richard L. Van Enger
Editor
Kitty McHugh
Mrs. Small
Eddy Chandler
Ticket Seller
Jack Raymond
Joe - Clown
Margaret Reid
Mrs. Crumm
Mike Riley
Bandleader
Frank Austin
Wolf Man (uncredited)
Darby Jones
Cannibal (uncredited)
Emil Van Horn
Gorilla (uncredited)
Media.
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Sleepy Lagoon is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and featuring comedian Judy Canova and singer Dennis Day. The film was written by Prescott Chaplin, while Frank Gill, Jr. and George Carleton Brown wrote the screenplay. It was Canova's final feature for the Republic studios until 1951.
While closely coincident in time, the movie was entirely unrelated to the Sleepy Lagoon murder which led to the Zoot Suit Riots, nor to the song which lent its name to that incident.